Roman Rabinovich

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Praised by The New York Times for his ‘uncommon sensitivity and feeling’, the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich was the winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008. His subsequent career has led him to perform throughout Europe and the USA in venues as Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Cité de la Musique in Paris and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center.

Roman Rabinovich has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, NFM Leopoldinum, KBS Symphony, Prague Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic and all the major Israeli orchestras, and has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Zubin Mehta, Ludovic Morlot, Kristjan Järvi, Michael Stern, Christoph Koenig, Gerard Schwarz and Joseph Swensen. In September 2022, Roman Rabinovich made his Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut, stepping in at 24-hours’ notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Concerto K. 271.

Highlights of 2023-24 season include Prokofiev Concerto no. 3 with La Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, and Lutoslawski Piano Concerto with Calgary Philharmonic, as well as performances with the Tallahassee and Bakersfield Symphonies. Recitals and chamber music performances include the Dvorak Prague Festival at the Rudolfinum, La Jolla Music Society, Chamber Music Sedona, Chamber Music Kelowna Society, Nelson Overture Concerts Society, Melbourne Chamber Music Society and Ladies Morning Musical Club of Montreal.

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Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich is also a composer and visual artist with a repertoire spanning six centuries, from Byrd to Boulez and beyond. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Haydn. In summer 2016 he embarked upon the Haydn Project, encompassing recital series of Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas; these have included cycles at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK and at ChamberFest Cleveland in the US; he has also appeared at the Herbstgold Festival in Eisenstadt, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall in 2022. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim, with BBC Music Magazine noting ‘the elegance and liveliness of Rabinovich’s keyboard style are, indeed, a joy to listen to, and his unfailing musicality and inventiveness allows him to penetrate to the expressive heart of Haydn’s world.’

Together with his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Roman Rabinovich is co-director of ChamberFest Cleveland as well as the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary. During the 2020-21 global pandemic, the pair gave a very successful series of free weekly concerts from their front yard in Calgary, Canada.

Roman Rabinovich) made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta aged 10, having immigrated to Israel a year before from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, he went on to earn his Masters degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald. He was among the first of three young pianists to be championed by Sir András Schiff for his ‘Building Bridges’ series.

Contact:
Nicolas Papageorgiou (Director)
Aude-Marie Auphan (Director)

Video

Brahms: Piano Concerto no.1 (excerpt)
Szczecin Philharmonic, Philippe Bach, October 2017
Haydn: Presto from Piano Sonata No.35
Tippet Rise Arts Center
Bach: Goldberg Variations (complete)
Chamberfest Cleveland, July 2021
Rabinovich: Sonatina
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Nov 2020
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata (excerpts)
Tippett Rise Arts Center, Aug 2019
Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D.958
Tippett Rise Arts Center, Aug 2019

Repertoire

Concerto List
      • J.S. Bach:

    Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
    Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

      • Bartók:

    Concerto No.1, Sz.83, BB91
    Concerto No. 2, Sz..95, BB101

      • Beethoven:

    Concerto No 1, in C major op 15
    Concerto No 2, in B flat major op 19
    Concerto No 3, in c minor op37
    Concerto No 4, in G major op58
    Concerto No 5, in E flat major op73
    Choral Fantasy, op80

      • Berg:

    Chamber Concerto

      • Berstein:

    Symhphony No.2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’

      • Brahms:

    Concerto No 1, in D minor op15

      • Chopin:

    Concerto No 1, in E minor op11
    Concerto No 2 in F minor op21
    Fantasy on Polish airs, op13

      • Dvorak:

    Piano Concerto in G minor, op33

      • Franck:

    Symphonic Variations, M 46

      • Grieg:

    Concerto in A minor op16

      • Haydn:

    Concerto in D major

      • Liszt:

    Concerto No 1, in E flat major
    Concerto No 2, in A major

      • Lutosławski:

    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

      • Martinů:

    Concertino for Piano Trio and String Orchestra, H.232

      • Mendelssohn:

    Double concerto for violin and piano in D minor
    Concerto No 1, in G minor op 25
    Concerto No 2, in D minor op 40
    Concerto in A minor, MWV O2

      • Mozart:

    Concerto in B flat major K 238
    Concerto in E flat major K 271 “Jeunehomme”
    Concerto in A major K.414
    Concerto in F major K.459
    Concerto in D minor K.466
    Concerto in C major K 467
    Concerto in E flat minor K.482
    Concerto in A major K.488
    Concerto in C minor K.491
    Concerto in C major K 503
    Concerto in B flat major K.595

      • Prokofiev:

    Concerto No 1, in D-flat major op10
    Concerto No 2, in G minor op16
    Concerto No 3, in C major op26
    Concerto No 5, G major op55

      • Rachmaninov:

    Concerto No 2, in C minor op18
    Concerto No 3, in D minor op30
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

      • Saint-Saens:

    Concerto No 2, in G minor op22
    Concerto No 5 in F major, op103

      • Schubert / Liszt:

    Wanderer Fantasy

      • Schumann:

    Concerto in A minor, op.54
    Introduction and Allego Appasionato op.92

      • Shchedrin:

    Concerto No 2

      • Shostakovich:

    Concerto No 1, in C minor for piano, trumpet and orchestra op35
    Concerto No.2 in F major, op102

      • Stravinsky:

    Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
    Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

      • Tchaikovsky:

    Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
    Concerto No 2, in G major op44

      • Yusupov:

    Concerto “Intimo” 2007


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Artwork

Roman Rabinovich regularly enhances his performances with his own visual art. He paints, draws and also uses an iPad to create artworks. Rabinovich often provides drawings and paintings for programme booklets and brochures, some of which are featured on this page. Rabinovich’s artwork has been exhibited in the USA and Israel, on CD covers and in booklets, and in the music press.

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www.romanrabinovich.net